I’ve been following the live Twitter feed from Rebel Media chief Ezra Levant who has been at the Royal Courts of Justice in London’s Strand today to report on Tommy Robinson’s appeal case. The case. This high profile and important case is being heard before The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Rt Hon Lord Burnett alongside the Hon Mr Justice Turner and the Hon Mrs Justice McGowan.

It was fascinating to read Mr Levant’s live streaming of the court case and although by the nature of tweets leaves out a lot of went on in court, it’s still a valuable record of what has gone on today. So far Mr Robinson’s counsel Mr Jeremy Dein QC has opened for the appellant and Mr Louis Malby QC has replied to Mr Dein’s arguments. Mr Dein appears to be concentrating on the process by which Mr Robinson was arrested, tried and sentenced in such a short amount of time. He is alleging that there were deficiencies with the procedure all through the Leeds case and appears to argue that Mr Robinson was not treated fairly by the court. Mr Dein has brought up the scandalous conditions in which Mr Robinson has been held and made the point that as a civil rather than a criminal prisoner he has wrongly had inmate rights that apply to civil prisoners removed from him and he has been treated like a serious criminal. I must admit I’ve been pretty impressed with what I’ve heard from Mr Dein so far and he also has a background, as does the Crown counsel, in appellate matters. I get the impression from Mr Levant’s tweets that Mr Dein has the upper hand here, but it’s all down to the Judges now.

The case has now been adjourned for an unspecified period but the Lord Chief Justice has indicated that this matter will be decided before the end of the month. However, as someone on Ezra Levant’s Twitter feed pointed out, as this case involves a person who could be seen as being wrongfully imprisoned, the matter may be sorted out and adjudicated before then.

I’m praying for Tommy here as I understand the conditions he is being kept in are unsafe to say the least. I believe that Tommy Robinson has been punished over harshly for this breach of the Contempt of Court Act but this leglisation is complex and it is something easy to breach by accident and very technical to adjudicate.